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Question 24 of 118

Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?

God, out of His mere good pleasure, from all eternity, having chosen a people to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation, by a Redeemer.

Scripture proofs

  • Ephesians 1:3-4

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:13

    But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

  • Romans 5:21

    that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Acts 13:48

    As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

  • Jeremiah 31:33

    “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).

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